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PETER de HOOGH (1629-1684) GIRL AND TWO OFFICERS Canvas 31 1/2 inches by 36 1/2 inches

BY a large chimney-piece sit two officers conversing with a girl who holds a wine-glass. The man on the left has hung his red jacket with gold embroidered sleeves on his chair, and has hat with colored plumes on his knee. In the background an open door leads into another room, the window of which looks upon a street with sunlit houses and the sky above. On the back wall hangs a large picture, various other objects are in the room. Mentioned in Hofstede de Groot's Cataogue Raisonne, Vol. 1, p. 540. Sales: Baronne de V... ez, Paris, September 19, 1815 (not sold because the sale was stopped). Earl of Mornington, at Ixelles, June 15, 1846, No. 4. Exhibited: Loan Collection, Guidhall, 1894. 177 GS